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    "content": "mortuaries have un-cleared bills of the hospitals. Now, our general suggestion in the hospital where I was the Chairman for a long time was that for people who had cleared all or part of the hospital bill, their bodies were released without charges as long they pay a small amount of Kshs3,000 for embalming. Without that sort of thing, if you start now urging that public hospitals must waive mortuary fees, they do not have enough funds to treat the living. Now you are asking them to waive those funds to treat the living for the dead. I think that, unfortunately, under the present circumstances, it is going to be a very difficult and emotional decision. What should be the case is either local authorities levy a fund or we have some sort of funding. But as we understand, public hospitals get less than 2 per cent of the budget and yet, they have to carry the burden of a much greater amount. So, I would like to urge my colleague, Mr. Mbau, to, perhaps, reframe this Motion to state that all mortuary fees must be paid within seven days and those that are not claimed---"
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